A biography for Elizabeth Edwardshasn’t been written yet.
“I've often said that the most important thing you can give your children is wings. Because, you're not gonna always be able to bring food to the nest. You're... sometimes... they're gonna have to be able to fly by themselves.”
“It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.”
“Successful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable, affordable health insurance has to make health care affordable.”
“What happened after Katrina is that people were stirred to action; there were an enormous number of contributions by people trying to make a difference. But then we forget. We've forgotten Katrina victims, we've forgotten the face of poverty.”
“I took my son's name. I didn't take my husband's name.”
“I grew up in a Navy family.”
“I've had experiences that, you know, really couldn't be replaced.”
“I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.”
“Almost everybody embraces life.”
“I can't turn on the television without seeing me, or open the newspaper without seeing me and, honestly, I'm sick to death of me.”
“Growing up in an Italian family, you use a harsh tone and 10 minutes later everybody forgets about it.”
“I'm not worried about me or what's going to happen to me.”
“I have a lot that I intend to do in this life.”
“I come out of real life.”
“I'm actually one of those people who get up energetic in the morning.”
“The military is already sexually integrated.”
“I want to reclaim who I am.”
“We were never a family that had a lot. We had enough, but not a lot.”
“I love children, love spending time with them; I love getting things for them.”
“Life is this great big blackboard, and on it you write all the things that you do.”